Dark blue-night cover reading What Is a Near Miss, with a large translucent amber numeral 258 at the lower right and the line: the nearness is not in the intersection.

What Is a Near Miss

A near miss is described as the thing that almost happened. The foundation I work from says there is nothing at that address: a record with all its mass on one outcome holds no runner-up, so the alternative is not a small entry but not an entry at all. What the word measures is how cheap it was to describe what did not happen, and that is a fact about the describer rather than about the intersection. … readWhat Is a Near Miss